On Thu, 25 Jan 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Daniel, > > nagios is started in /etc/init.d/nagios with "su - nagios -c nagios", so the > process > inherits the environment varialbes of the root user, which executes the su > command. > ($HOME is /root)
Which distribution are you using? My init-script (based on the one from Dag Wieers Nagios-RPM) starts nagios this way: case "$1" in start) echo "Starting network monitor: nagios" $NagiosBin -v $NagiosCfgFile > /dev/null 2>&1; if [ $? -eq 0 ]; then su - $NagiosUser -c "/usr/bin/ndo2db -c /etc/nagios/ndo2db.cfg" su - $NagiosUser -c "touch $NagiosVarDir/nagios.log $NagiosRetentionFile" rm -f $NagiosCommandFile touch $NagiosRunFile chown $NagiosUser:$NagiosGroup $NagiosRunFile $NagiosBin -d $NagiosCfgFile Danny -- Q: Gentoo is too hard to install = http://www.cyberdelia.de and I feel like whining. = [EMAIL PROTECTED] A: Please see /dev/null. = (from the gentoo installer FAQ) = \o/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Nagios-users mailing list Nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users ::: Please include Nagios version, plugin version (-v) and OS when reporting any issue. ::: Messages without supporting info will risk being sent to /dev/null